San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-05-04
EDITORIAL BREvITIEs

tAhmpi6s
A BROAD pine single is accepted as
the most effective II not the latest board
Of arbitration between an unruly boy
and his mother.
CONNECTICUT, proverbIal as the "Lsnd
OF Steady Habits" with an eye to the
preservation Of her reputation, has
passed bill prohibiting the employ
ment Of Plnkerton's detectives as special
police In that state.
The Cuero Star. promises that the SEN
| atoTial district, so far as that section OF
1t is concerned, shall go solidly prohioi-
| ton. Perhaps, and again perhaps not.
The Star may see stars before that pre-
dictlon is verified.
IHE campaign orator and the special
pleader viii be In the field for the COM
| ing three months. The man who has
not already made up his mind on this
| prohibition question, is waiting for the
| opening OF the barrel.
The Waco Examiner expects to receive
all the heavy weight goods that come to
| that CITY, via the Arkansas Pass road, in
another twelve months. The Arkansas
Pass Is spreading out, and seems des-
| tined TO be the highway Of prosperity
to more than one Texas city.
The Ohio high license law has closed
forty-eight saloons In the city Of Colum-
bus, two hundred In Toledo, and three
hundred in Cleveland. Still the pro-
hibits are not happy, and they fight the
law for all that is out. Stringent regu-
lation OF the traffic Is the one thing the
prohibitionlsts do not want.
VEST thinks Eads' ship railway scheme
has died with him. That depends
on how much real value there is In the
| scheme. Ii 1t Is a practical paying
scheme Ii will not fail. III 1t does not
commend itself to the judgment Of prao-
tical men 1t will certainly fall, and 1t
| should.
CARL SCHURz is likely to be confined to
his room for several months, by the in
| juries he received some weeks since. II
| Carl would only confine himself to his
bed for the months of 1888, apatient
country and lOng-suffering people
would not object to his moving around
| In 1887.
THIS seems to be a season In which
| the drys have full team In the field. IT
| may be a good day and year for the vets
In Texas, but present Indications are not
| that way in this section. Perhaps things
may change after the Dallas convention.
This dry campaign may suit some folks,
but more moisture would be blessing
| to this section Of Texas.
The Kerrville Eye is three years old,
and yet, according to Its own confession,
| Ii has net opened Its second optic yet.
| 1t offers the use OF Its columns to the
Farmers Alliance, and yet in the same
| sentence says: THE Eye does not know
hat hA ~ hn -
| This Ia going 1t q little too blind for q
man even with one eye.
THE Louisville Courier journal thinks
that there was considerable Of the old
south that might and should have per-
ished with slavery, but which has not
the grace TO do so. II Bro. Watterson
will only look around he will find that
the funeral professions multiply over
these things surviving slavery which
should have persisted with it.
THERE are not great many who are
roOsting on the fence during this cam
psign. Occasionally, however Journal
list comes to the front with this state
meDt: There is good deal of fuss and
feathers mixed up in all this prohibition
business. so much so that nothing but
the ballot will decide 1t. 1t Is not our
fight, those who are making the money
out of the scheme may do the work.
We don't want hand In their liberty"
SAN ANTONIO Is again enjoying the
prospect Of electric lights. Now let us
have little electricity In municipal
matters. Those garbage furnaces and
increased fire protection are in the right
direction. Now give us some relief
from the system which turns all the
sewage of the city, so far as there is any,
directly into the San Antonio river, and
we will begin to look up. This latter
matter admits Of no delay. The duty OF
stopping this thing Is imperative upon
the council, and 1t can only be done
when some other method of conveying
that sewage out of the city Is provided.
The campaign papers have struck
Texas in shoals. There Ia one consola-
tiOn-there being no occasion for their
being there will be no regrets at their
nom being. The non-being is a question
of two or three months. The people of
Texas have already decided this matter
in their own minds and are only waiting
for August 4th to give expression to it.
The deliverances of campaign organs
will not affect the vote one way or the
other. IL is a question Of personal lib
erty versus puritanical fanaticism.
The case of Mr.. Robert Wulfing, of
this city, is unique. In Judge Jeffries
time the bench discharged the functions
OF the court, including those Of counsel
and jury. That time has passed and 1t is
not at all likely that 1t will come again.
The juror who understands his business
as well as Wulting did, can we'll afford
to let his dismissal as a juror be judged
by the country. Ii a Juror has to accept
his belief OF witness from the judge, as
well as his law, there is no use Of having
jury at all. Texas justice is such a
queer commodity that II ia premature to
say one word about what is accepted or
not accepted as current judicial proceed
ings until the whole gsmut Of the courts
has been run. But TO one accustomed to
the orderly proceedings Of courts else
where, IL seems very much out OF the
way for the judge OF court to discharge
a juror because he does not believe the
testimony offered by witnesses. In GO
ing to that length yesterday, the federal
judge here has laid himself open to sd-
verse criticism and challenged enquiry
into the authority upon which he bases
his assumption OF power over the con
scientlous belief Of an Intelligent juror.
The outrage upon Mr.. Steagall, re-
ported In the local columns OF the press
OF this city, wants to be Investigated.
II that outrage was perpetrsted by the
baser fellows OF the anti-prohibition sort,
the decent men Of that party should
hasten to put quietus upon such at
tempts to mould public sentiment.
This is free country, and IL Ill becomes
the advocates Of personal liberty to resort
to measures OF Intimidation and threats
of narannal vinlanoa Iyth. ortro-o .. :.